Re: A laptop installation challenge

2009-11-05 Thread Kevin Buhr
AG writes: > > On one disk I found something that booted into the grub prompt. I > did some reading up on grub and some basic commands. I didn't get > very far - it reports back that there is an ext2fs loaded on > /dev/hda1 which I'm assuming was root, although I am sure that when > I partitione

Re: Slow booting

2009-11-05 Thread Kevin Buhr
Kamil KuĊ‚aga writes: > > After init of soundcard and before swap activation i have 90 seconds > hole. Is it normal? Can I configure kernel to somewhat avoid this? Unfortunately, I think adding a large swap partition (yours is 6GB) can be a slow operation under Linux. Google for "slow swapon" and

Re: Problem with removing a chroot

2008-07-23 Thread Kevin Buhr
Ryan Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am having a problem removing the remains of a chroot; I used the > script in /usr/share/doc/libpam-chroot/examples/ and it created hard > links for the entire /proc folder in /var/chroot/user/testuser/proc/ > and I cannot remove it. Can someone let me kn

Re: files encrypted with openssl enc?

2008-05-15 Thread Kevin Buhr
etermining if the beginnings of two files match. After the first difference in the files, he can't mount a useful attack. I hope that helps. You should probably double-check on an appropriate OpenSSL list or something if you're really concerned, though. -- Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL

Re: openssl vulnerability and RSA keys

2008-05-15 Thread Kevin Buhr
means that anyone who intercepted and saved such an SSH conversation can now use this new knowledge of the OpenSSL vulnerability to recover the private DSA key from the connection data. At least, that's how I've interpreted what I've heard. -- Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?

2008-05-07 Thread Kevin Buhr
e > same thing, e.g.: > > \fBinstall\fR This is definitely a bug, but not UTF-8 related: it renders this way on my UTF-8 capable terminals, as well. It looks like it's already documented in bug #438725 and fixed in testing, but we're stuck with it in stable. -- Kevin Buhr &

Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?

2008-05-06 Thread Kevin Buhr
kage name and version, if you aren't using plain Etch). I would very much like to track down the problem and file bug reports on the offending manpages. Thanks. -- Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?

2008-05-06 Thread Kevin Buhr
ling to give up bold text). You can use the "dynafont" package, which uses dynamic font loading tricks to allow displaying text that requires more code space than that. It comes with a font that includes about 7900 glyphs and does pretty well if you don't care about Asian language su

Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?

2008-05-06 Thread Kevin Buhr
ne to "/etc/locale.gen": en_US ANSI_X3.4-1968 run "/usr/sbin/locale-gen" as root, and find some way to set "LANG=en_US" or "LC_ALL=en_US". ANSI_X3.4-1968 is another name for ASCII, so your new "en_US" locale shouldn't bother you with heretical characters. Some applications will still give up and print a "?" for non-ASCII characters, but "man" should do an excellent job displaying a pure ASCII rendering of your manpages for you. -- Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: iptables "whitelist" rule

2008-05-04 Thread Kevin Buhr
Internet will pass through the FORWARD table and be dropped by the remaining rule. -- Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to create an ssh chain A->B->C to do http over ssh across the chain?

2008-03-19 Thread Kevin Buhr
d keys in the future. This would open the door to a man-in-the-middle attack, but it's probably not a big concern for your purposes. -- Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DCHP

2008-03-18 Thread Kevin Buhr
Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > and change it to this: > > iface eth0 inet manual > up dhclient3 -lf /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.$IFACE.leases -pf > /var/run/dhclient.$IFACE.pid $IFACE > down kill $(< /var/run/dhclient.$IF

Re: DCHP

2008-03-15 Thread Kevin Buhr
e, it'll allocate a new IP address. Make sure "dhclient3" is running. Now, try "ifdown eth0", and make sure "dhclient3" is no longer running. Finally, try "ifup eth0" again, and you'll hopefully get back your old IP address. Try rebooting, and---again---you should get back your old IP address. Good luck. -- Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?

2008-03-09 Thread Kevin Buhr
, then I believe Marty's suggestion is sound: I recall people on "sci.electronics.repair" claiming to have had good success putting circuit boards (stripped of socketed components) in the dishwasher. I'm not sure whether the dishwasher's heated dry cycle would be recomm

Re: OMG! Think I did something stupid with dmcrypt

2008-02-16 Thread Kevin Buhr
Andrew Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have debian lenny on a server with full disk encryption (the guided > partitioning option) and an external usb WD Mybook that is also > encrypted with dmcrypt/LUKS. LUKS stores the encrypted master key (generally decryptable by supplying just the pass

Re: How to work with portable mail server?

2008-02-13 Thread Kevin Buhr
g service's server, or whatever. Then, you use "fetchmail" to get the mail onto your laptop and delivered through your local copy of "exim". If you don't like your ISP and/or want to use your own domain name and your ISP won't cooperate, mail hosting servic

Re: Dbus, Hald Groups?

2008-02-07 Thread Kevin Buhr
renumbering will screw that up. I don't believe that "messagebus" and "haldaemon" own any files, though, so this probably won't be a problem. > To access these, do I need to be a "member" of these groups? This > could be why kde4 seems to need root

Re: su doesn't work "Authentication failure"

2008-02-05 Thread Kevin Buhr
"Dennis G. Wicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Kevin Buhr wrote the following on 01/31/2008 12:50 PM: > > From aptitude show login ==>> 1:4.0.18.1-7 <<== >> should give: >> >> 1381ae1ac77b512258657b096522bb6a /bin/su >

Re: su doesn't work "Authentication failure"

2008-01-31 Thread Kevin Buhr
Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If your version of the "login" package is the latest official Etch > version 1:4.0.18.1-7, then "md5sum /bin/su" should give: > > 1381ae1ac77b512258657b096522bb6a /bin/su Sorry. That was sloppy of me. The

Re: su doesn't work "Authentication failure"

2008-01-31 Thread Kevin Buhr
: 1381ae1ac77b512258657b096522bb6a /bin/su If your Etch version matches mine but the md5 doesn't, you might start to get pretty worried. -- Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: exim - what is it? (how does it run)

2007-12-07 Thread Kevin Buhr
given error message. Taking a step back, though, I'm not so sure writing your own Exim file from scratch, as you seem to be doing, is the best way to get Exim "working". It's much easier to start with a barebones configuration, such as one of the stock configurations generate

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-09-07 Thread Kevin Buhr
Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Still, there are some unpleasant problems I couldn't solve. The worst >> one was that Mutt downloads the whole message. That is, it does not >> support selective retrieval of MIME parts, AFAIU. > > I do not know one single IMAP client which can do t

Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

2006-08-31 Thread Kevin Buhr
"Michael S. Peek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Which begs the question: Why doesn't 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' install > the package? Does your package have any unsatisfied dependencies? They need to be scheduled for install via "dselect --set-selections", too. If you're going to go this route

Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

2006-08-31 Thread Kevin Buhr
"Mumia W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The man-page for dpkg suggests that Michael's method should have > worked: > >> dpkg --set-selections >>Set package selections using file read from stdin. > > Notice that additional parameters are not required, and the input > comes from stdin. I

Re: Use of dpkg --set-selections is brain-dead?

2006-08-30 Thread Kevin Buhr
"Michael S. Peek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've traced my problem down to the use of 'dpkg --set-selections' > command. As an example, I have a package named tiem-nis-client-cfg > that sets up NIS for generic workstations. If I understand correctly, > I should be able to do the following:

Re: [OT] Sourceforge lists and Return-Path header

2006-08-30 Thread Kevin Buhr
Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The final alternative is to employ ugly per-MUA hacks, like the > "use_from" Mutt option that Andrew mentioned. Whoops... It looks like Andrew's descriptions were a little mixed up. According to the Mutt manual, it isn

Re: [OT] Sourceforge lists and Return-Path header

2006-08-30 Thread Kevin Buhr
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When I send from thunderbird from any machine, it works as it is > connecting directly to santiago. If I use mutt on santiago, it works > fine there as well since it is running an instance of Postfix which can > be reached from the public intern

Re: Weird cursor problem in X11

2006-08-19 Thread Kevin Buhr
Option "SWcursor" "on" to the "Driver" (or "Screen" or "Monitor"---any of these should work) section of your "XF86Config-4". -- Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where's the grub boot menu?

2006-08-19 Thread Kevin Buhr
n-3.0-amd64.gz dom0_mem=262144 module /vmlinuz-2.6.16-2-xen-amd64-k8 root=/dev/mapper/main-buddharoot ro console=tty0 module /initrd.img-2.6.16-2-xen-amd64-k8 savedefault boot However, I doubt your problem has anything to do with problems in the "menu.lst"---it seems pretty clear that

Re: Making a mixed audio and data CD with cdrecord?

2006-06-08 Thread Kevin Buhr
CD-RWs okay. Googling for <> and < may help, too. In particular, there's a "README.cdplus" floating around that gives instructions on creating these kinds of discs. -- Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firefox question about pop-up menus; (solved?) and a new annoyance

2006-05-06 Thread Kevin Buhr
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Then the mozilla extension installer worked, *but* the new image of > firefox has a problem that is in its own internal configuration. It > is most noticeable in the top line of buttons (File Edit View > ...). When I click on any of these it becomes 'h

Re: df discrepencies

2006-05-01 Thread Kevin Buhr
iting to this partition despite the fact > that column 4 was reporting 0 as the available disk space. Again, writes as a normal user probably would have failed, but an "rsync" running as "root" would have continued writing to the reserved space. -- Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what is the stack size in Debian kernels?

2005-10-20 Thread Kevin Buhr
e set, as far as I know, so the Debian stack should be the default of 8k. A patch to add a 16k stacks option that *also* uses a separate interrupt-handling stack to give even more free space is available at: http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/archive/linux-2.6.12-16kstacks.pat

Re: Mozilla Firefox Menus

2005-08-20 Thread Kevin Buhr
Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Submit a bug. I don't care if it DOES come from upstream, it's a bug. At > the least, a bug existing would mean that apt-listbugs and apt-listchanges > would notify people to change themes. It looks like it's already submitted as Debian bug #257430. A f

Re: Any package on Debian to convert a WAVE file into MP3?

2005-08-14 Thread Kevin Buhr
ata, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, mono 8000 Hz $ lame test2.wav test.mp3 [ . . . ] $ -- Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Bit OT]: Latex Gurus?

2005-08-10 Thread Kevin Buhr
Text Body Text \end{document} -END OF EXAMPLE- -- Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CPU fans shut off by Debian?

2005-07-11 Thread Kevin Buhr
Stephen Lokitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am running Sarge 2.4.27-2-686-smp on an intel SR1435VP2(which is > a 1U server platform) with dual 2.8 Xeon processors. I am required to > run the 2.4 kernel for my application. What appears to happen is that at > some random time after powe

Re: DNS lookup problems.

2005-05-14 Thread Kevin Buhr
Christopher Rueber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Okay, I've been looking for an answer for this for a little while, and > have been unable to find one. Here's the problem: Have you tried to Google for: dns actiontec "1.0.0.0" It looks like a common issue with the Actiontec 701 modem.

Re: Internet (Once and for all)

2005-05-12 Thread Kevin Buhr
"David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When I use the script /usr/local/bin/start-pppoe (one of the scripts > that is part of the software), it says no sir; eth0 still > broadcasting. I'm assuming the error message that appears on your screen is *not*: no sir; eth0 still broadc

Re: Background question

2005-05-06 Thread Kevin Buhr
"M. Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Between the boot splash and the graphical login manager, there is a > screen with a black and white checkerd background and a big black > "X" which is the mouse. There's a barely documented command line option on recent X servers. If you pass "-br" (short

Re: DHCP questions...

2004-10-28 Thread Kevin Buhr
"Kevin Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Second, where or how to check if the lease of DHCP expires? I know "ipconfig > /all" can do this under Windows. Information about your leases is probably stored in the textfile "/var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases" (or maybe "/var/run/dhclient.eth0.leases", d

Re: On the verge of suicide:tar & gunzip problems

2004-07-30 Thread Kevin Buhr
Vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> zcat /mnt/backup-compaq/home.tar.gz | >> perl -ne 'm,home/vic/, && do { ++$count[($l + length($`)) % 512] }; >> $l += length($_); END { for (0..511) { printf "%3d %5d\n", $_, >> $count[$_] if $count[$_] } }' | sort -nr +1 | head -20 > > For the time bein

Re: Do I *have* to have xauth (and all that it brings in?)

2004-07-28 Thread Kevin Buhr
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > But, I have a case where I need to first ssh to a machine on a public > IP and then from there ssh into the machine on the local LAN where I > want to run the application. If you don't mind the overhead of double-encrypting, you can tunnel SSH over SSH.

Re: On the verge of suicide:tar & gunzip problems

2004-07-28 Thread Kevin Buhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > vic:/# tar -xvzf /mnt/backup-compaq/home.tar.gz > home/ > home/victor/ > home/victor/.R/ > home/victor/.R/help.db > tar: Skipping to next header > tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers > > vic:/# gunzip /mnt/backup-compaq/home.tar.gz > gunzip: /mnt/backup-c

Re: Enabling telnet access

2004-06-19 Thread Kevin Buhr
Paal Marker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When telneting the box I get into the login, asked for username. When > entering a valid username I get this message: > "System bootup in progress -please wait" You probably have an "/etc/nologin" file (containing this text you see) that wasn't deleted b

Re: Computer shut down unexpectedly while unattended.

2004-03-10 Thread Kevin Buhr
Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When I got up this morning I found that my computer had > mysteriously powered down overnight around 02:50. There's nothing the least bit suspicious in the logs you gave. It was probably just a power outage. Do you have any reason to believe it was some

Re: unexplained network problems

2004-03-07 Thread Kevin Buhr
f, too, which could slow things down or fill your logs.) Here's how to unload and reload the driver with a different tulip_debug setting: ifdown eth0 rmmod tulip modprobe tulip tulip_debug=2 ifup eth0 There's no guarantee that the resulting log will actually

Re: Debian Slow?

2004-03-07 Thread Kevin Buhr
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm guessing it has something to do with the memory usage, because > the machines here use about 15 MB of swap, with 20ish MB of memory > free by the time I'm halfway through my 1 GB swap at home! I've > cleaned up the services, and turned off things like FTP, Samba,

Re: unexplained network problems

2004-03-06 Thread Kevin Buhr
Marty Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > woody:~# more /var/log/kern.log | grep eth0 > Mar 4 09:11:41 woody kernel: eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 33 at > 0xe400, 00:A0:CC:40:3E:9B, IRQ 11. [ . . . ] Oh, I see you found the logs. Well, obviously the driver didn't write anything relevant to

Re: unexplained network problems

2004-03-06 Thread Kevin Buhr
Marty Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > so I could've just done > > %ifdown -a && ifup -a Yes, that would work. In fact, "ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0" would just restart the specific interface. The "-a" flag just means all interfaces flagged with "auto" in "/etc/network/interfaces". > A fast

Re: unexplained network problems

2004-03-05 Thread Kevin Buhr
Marty Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ifconfig eth0 down > rmmod tulip # using this driver for my netgear fs310tx nic > modprobe tulip > /etc/rc.d/networking restart > bash: /etc/rc.d/networking: No such file or directory > route add gw 192.168.0.1 > gw: host name lookup failure > ping

Re: ntpdate leap year

2004-03-03 Thread Kevin Buhr
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Get a real NTP client? chrony didn't screw up... Surely "ntp-simple" is a "real" NTP client. I mean, it's *the* NTP software package (i.e., the official reference implementation of the NTPv4 protocol). The "-simple" part just means it doesn't include

Re: ntpdate leap year

2004-03-01 Thread Kevin Buhr
Greg Madden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I use ntp-simpl. This is a leap year, 29 days in February, but ntp is > short by one day. I can adjust the date manually but when ntp runs it > sets me back a day. Is there away to tell ntp about leap years ? First, not to be a wiseass, but you might w

Re: wireless bridge, & nic IP addressing

2004-03-01 Thread Kevin Buhr
"Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I just got my wireless internet this morning, and have run into a > small problem. > > The wireless bridge, attached to my nic has been assigned a static IP > (for the time being), and to get my nic (eth0) to find it, it was also > assigned an IP ad

Re: How do I get a warm fuzzy feeling about kernel upgrade?

2003-12-10 Thread Kevin Buhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I have reaffirmed that I'm clueless this morning. I found this security > bulletin: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/debian-security-announce-2003/msg00212.html > > this morning. This worried me since I just installed debian last

Re: print command

2003-11-02 Thread Kevin Buhr
Vivek Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is there any other command to print any character say "*" 80 times.. The Bash-specific solution already proposed: for (( i=0; i<80; ++i )); do echo -n '*'; done; echo has the advantage that, since "echo" is an internal command, the entire loop

Re: procmail "solution" against swen

2003-09-22 Thread Kevin Buhr
Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Um, credits go to Kevin Buhr on alt.sysadmin.recovery, thank you very > much, unless Victor and I happened to come up with exactly the same > recipe down to the byte range and choice of Base64 line. ;) Okay, I found Victor's

Re: procmail "solution" against swen

2003-09-22 Thread Kevin Buhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Credits to go Victor Duchovni. He posted it on the postfix-users list > after some experiments with body_checks. It does do a very good job > stopping these mails indeed. Um, credits go to Kevin Buhr on alt.sysadmin.recovery, thank you very much, unless

Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?

2003-09-21 Thread Kevin Buhr
Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > At least one technical description of Swen (which I can no longer > find) states that [ . . . ] Found the reference. See: http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/swen.shtml under the heading "Spreading in e-mails and to newsgroup

Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?

2003-09-21 Thread Kevin Buhr
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm curious why I'm getting so many of these viruses sent to me. On > various technical lists I've read of lots of people that are getting > hammered by the mail, too. At least one technical description of Swen (which I can no longer find) states that,

Re: Traffic Shaping -- I Need a Push in the Right Direction

2003-09-10 Thread Kevin Buhr
Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Specifically, you can set up an HTB (which is included in standard > 2.4.x kernels but probably requires a patch for 2.2.x kernels) Oh, sorry. Looks like it's standard from 2.4.20 on but would require a patch for earlier 2.4.x ker

Re: Traffic Shaping -- I Need a Push in the Right Direction

2003-09-10 Thread Kevin Buhr
"Greg Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I need to perform bandwidth traffic shaping on a Debian Gateway > machine. I've done a good bit of surfing but have not been able to > find what I want. The 2.2 and 2.4 kernels contain an immense amount of packet scheduling code. Start by reading secti

Re: **Getting** dhcp to write /etc/resolv.conf

2003-09-09 Thread Kevin Buhr
Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The only thing I can see which appears a bit odd is a line in the > dhclient-script: > > make_resolv_conf() { > if [ "x$new_domain_name" != x ] && [ x"$new_domain_name_servers" != x ]; then >^ compared with ^^^ > ec

Re: Routing

2003-09-08 Thread Kevin Buhr
ollow the latter's instructions to recompile a patched kernel and create Debian "kernel-image-*" and "kernel-headers-*" packages. Then, install those, and you've got an MPPE-patched kernel. To make any real use of this, though, you also need an MPPE-patched PPP daemon. -- Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Routing

2003-09-05 Thread Kevin Buhr
"Mark Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > When I use the MS pptp client and login to the pptpd server on this machine > i can ping all networks from the client, but cannot reach the internet. > Pinging google.nl results in the name beeing resolved to the ip adress of > google.nl but the request

Re: Routing

2003-09-05 Thread Kevin Buhr
"Mark Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is what my table looked like: > > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse > Iface > localnet* 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 > 217.149.32.0*

Re: Routing

2003-09-05 Thread Kevin Buhr
? > > Just keep: route add -net 192.168.3.0/24 eth0 ? > > Thanks again. > > - Original Message - > From: "Kevin Buhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Mark Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, September 05,

Re: route function of actiontec 1524, please help

2003-09-04 Thread Kevin Buhr
"eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >I had actiontec 1524 dsl modem, firmware 1.60.50.0.51, with one pc > (wtih linux, redhat 9) with one static ip, I want to broadcast > webserver by above > but when I type in my (static ip) in my browser, it show the modem > configuration page, not my apach

Re: Routing

2003-09-04 Thread Kevin Buhr
Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > route add -net 192.168.3.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 Oh, and David Z Maze is probably correct. Even if this works, it probably isn't what you want to do anyway. When you only brought "eth0" up and were able to

Re: "route" issue

2003-09-04 Thread Kevin Buhr
Nick Lindsell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have a problem with portsentry in that I cannot remove > blocked IPs. The portsentry.conf is configured to use > "route add -host $TARGET$ reject" for any $TARGET that crosses > its path - in my previous experience "route del -host $TARGET$ reject" >

Re: Routing

2003-09-04 Thread Kevin Buhr
"Mark Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ok thanks, tried it but I get: > > SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument > > when I issue: > route add -net 192.168.3.0 eth0 Include the netmask anyway: route add -net 192.168.3.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0 or, if you prefer the short version (CIDR sty

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Kevin Buhr
Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Aside from the present market penetration of X (which could also be > used to argue to stick with Windows instead of ever having adopted > Linux), what would be the obstacle (other than, of course, the > time/effort for development) for a new graphi

Re: Bizarre one-way network disconnection

2003-08-30 Thread Kevin Buhr
Mark Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > All of a sudden, the server will reject all network communication on > eth0, won't respond to pings, no ssh, no samba. (ssh gives the message : > No route to host) However, if I ssh in through eth1 I am able to ping > addresses _from_ eth0. If I ifdown eth

Re: telnet localhost slow, telnet 127.0.0.1 ok

2003-08-30 Thread Kevin Buhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > If I run telnet localhost 22 then I have to wait 15-30 seconds before it > connects; with telnet 127.0.0.1 22 it connects at once. I have the same > results using other open ports. Does telnet -4 localhost give the same delay? If not, then the problem is IP

Re: is exim attempting to relay ???

2003-08-29 Thread Kevin Buhr
"Michael D. Schleif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > However, correct me if I'm wrong, it looks to me that -- initially -- > fetchmail gets an email message from one of my many remote mail servers, > and passes it off to exim for local processing. > > The To: header is mangled, and noted, and 550

Re: Passing parameters to a telnet session?

2003-08-29 Thread Kevin Buhr
Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Does anyone know if there is a way to pass a parameter to a telnet session? A mechanism exists for the "telnet" client to send arbitrary environment variables to the "telnetd" server. The Debian version of the client will send USER (if "-a" or "-l" is

Re: Spamassassin and procmail

2003-08-04 Thread Kevin Buhr
Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I currently use fetchmail and procmail to get and sort my mail. I'd > like to use spamassassin as well, however when I add > > :0fw: spamassassin.lock > | /usr/bin/spamassassin > > to my .procmailrc, it works ok, but then the mail gets delivered to >

Re: Identify dhcp client to server using hostname

2003-07-30 Thread Kevin Buhr
Robert Ian Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have created a range of dynamic ip-numbers and have tried to find > a way to identify those hosts that need a fixed address using host > statements. The client-supplied "host-name" parameter won't do it. Instead, you need to configure the client

Re: pptp client behind firewall

2003-04-02 Thread Kevin Buhr
Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Greg MATTHEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I have a linux server setup with pptpd which appears to be working ok (port > > 1723 is definitely open) but i'm having trouble connecting to it from behind &

Re: pptp client behind firewall

2003-04-01 Thread Kevin Buhr
Greg MATTHEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have a linux server setup with pptpd which appears to be working ok (port > 1723 is definitely open) but i'm having trouble connecting to it from behind > my firewall - a debian pentium running stable using iptables. You have my sympathies. > doe

Re: dhclient problem

2003-03-30 Thread Kevin Buhr
David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is the log with the right options (yesterday I forgot some, so I > didn't send it since I didn't think it would be useful). I hope you still > have some time to look at it, the problem keeps annoying me. Thanks! Well, after every DHCP REQUEST, th

Re: Permission denied -- Say what?

2003-03-25 Thread Kevin Buhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > bash:/home/ronin/files/seti$ ./setiathome > bash: ./setiathome: Permission denied Is the partition containing your home directory mounted "noexec", perhaps? -- Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: dhclient problem

2003-03-25 Thread Kevin Buhr
David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Since this post, I contacted my ISP and they say they can see my REQUEST, > and hey! Yes, there goes the ACK! Another REQUEST, another ACK! But > somehow, I don't receive them. I use tcpdump | dhcpdump and that > works perfectly, I can see all DHCP op

Re: dhclient problem

2003-03-25 Thread Kevin Buhr
David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't know what's going on since the syslog shows that after > each DHCPREQUEST there is a DHCPOFFER from the correct server. That's broken server behaviour. The server is supposed to respond with either a DHCPACK or a DHCPNAK (or not respo

Re: What the heck did emacs do with my email?

2003-03-19 Thread Kevin Buhr
Joseph Barillari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If you can, you may want to suspend mail delivery when you do that, in > case sendmail decides to write to the mailspool at the same time you > do. (Incidentally, does anyone know a better way to lock a mailspool > before appending messages to it?)

Re: tar ate my symlinks

2003-03-19 Thread Kevin Buhr
dev made it through intact. It'll depend on your kernel and what other "special filesystems" you've mounted. If you run "mount" without options, it'll list what's mounted, and you can figure out what isn't a real filesystem from there. In addition to &q

Re: tar ate my symlinks

2003-03-17 Thread Kevin Buhr
> FIX_MY_SYMLINKS That'll create a shell script capable of recreating all the broken symlinks (except those where the symlink filename or value contained whitespace---hopefully you don't have any of those that matter). After you've double-checked that the commands in FIX_MY_SYML

Re: Iptables is driving me nuts (beginner)

2003-03-14 Thread Kevin Buhr
"n/a" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Apparently there's something i'm not getting thru my thick skull about > packet filtering. I think others have pointed out the main problem---packets being forwarded by the machine don't pass through the INPUT and OUTPUT chains. This behaviour differs from t

Re: adduser wants root passwd though I am root

2003-03-13 Thread Kevin Buhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I am root and want create new user ... > > $> whoami > $> root > $> adduser test > $> Password: Under the hood, "adduser" uses "useradd" (from the "passwd" package) to do its work. My "adduser" and "passwd" packages are the current Woody/stable version: adduser ver

Re: Shadow RAM can't be disabled

2003-03-02 Thread Kevin Buhr
at some device (like an ISA network card, for example) is using for memory-mapped I/O, but those are the ranges you've already disabled. -- Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AW: pppd problem...

2003-03-02 Thread Kevin Buhr
"Christof Hurschler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sorry, but how do I get rid of the "tap0" default route? The "diald" dial-on-demand package is probably doing it. You can "apt-get remove diald" to get it out of the way, at least until you

Re: pptp ...

2003-03-02 Thread Kevin Buhr
R_IP PPTP domainname\\username YourRealPassword SERVER_IP with the backslashes doubled, not quadrupled. On my PPTP tunnel, if I use double backslashes, it works. If I quadruple the backslashes like you've done, I get the same authentication failure you do. -- Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multiple NICs with Monolithic kernel

2003-02-25 Thread Kevin Buhr
Michael West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The final thing which I still do not understand is that, after I > passed the ether= kernel parameters for each card, only eth0 would > work. But if I `ifdown eth0` then only eth1 would work. Finally > if I `ifdown eth1` then eth2

Re: Multiple NICs with Monolithic kernel

2003-02-25 Thread Kevin Buhr
Michael West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I tried passing kernel parameters > > ether=11,0x2000,eth0 ether=10,0x4000,eth1 ether=9,0x6000,eth2 Actually, if I read the source right, these aren't having any effect. They certainly aren't doing what you want them to do: they aren't determining whi

Re: set up a LAN DNS so that it doesn't conflict with external DNSes

2003-02-17 Thread Kevin Buhr
Jerome "Lacoste (Frisurf)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > My needs are the following: > - from my LAN I want that the address xxx.mydomain.com resolves directly > to our server (192.168.1.2). > - I want all my former settings to work. I.e. www.mydomain.com resolves > to the ISP located site. > >

Re: how to get rid of the staircase effect

2003-02-17 Thread Kevin Buhr
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > apsfilter. is there another method, maybe one with less weight? Well, the "ifhp" package contains the "standard" LPRng input filter, assuming you're using LPRng. If you want a dumb filter (one that doesn't make any effort to, say, print PostScript

Re: Special case of VPN : how can I do this ?

2002-12-06 Thread Kevin Buhr
"eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > in my peer/dsl-provider > pty ... > it also have similar situation, > but I really did not know why my pppoe keep not work > that is in 2.4.20 kernel of 686 from unstable Which version of "pppd" are you running? Since about 2.4.2, the 2.4.x kernels have

Re: Special case of VPN : how can I do this ?

2002-12-06 Thread Kevin Buhr
Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'd like to setup a VPN between my own computer and a computer in my > university, on which, of course, I don't have root access. You could look at the "slirp" package. The "slirp" server runs with normal user privileges on the remote machine and mi

Re: getting an address from DHCP without an interface

2002-11-19 Thread Kevin Buhr
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > eth0:1 is a virtual interface of eth0, but it has the same MAC > address, so it will get the same IP assigned as eth0 did by the DHCP > server. Depending on the DHCP server at the other end, you may be able to use the ISC DHCP client (with an approp

Re: Procmail + debian +Qmail

2002-11-19 Thread Kevin Buhr
Mikael Jirari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I built the receipe > > :0 > * > $HOME/.Maildir/ > > and it works. Yes, this is the correct way to put all messages into a single maildir-format directory. Recompiling "procmail" is only necessary if you want to stop an empty "/var/spool/mail/mikae

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